More than 300 papers are being presented over the three days of the conference, distributed between 37 sessions. The timetable and abstracts are online.

Monday 15th December

12:00 onwards Registration in ‘Garden Court’, Highfield Campus. (Campus map - Number 38)

Afternoon Registration continues followed by:
16.00 - 18.30 Plenary Session and speeches in the EEE Lecture Theatre, Highfield Campus (Campus map - Number 32). Refreshments are available throughout the afternoon in the staff club next door.

Opening Reception. Evening Guided tours of medieval Southampton, drinks and food.

Tuesday 16th December

8:30- Registration continues at Avenue Campus.
9:00-13:00 Morning Sessions

• A Dynamic Relationship: exploring the complexities of representation in the museum/heritage experience
• Benefit or barrier ? Archaeological research and practice in an audit society
• The Archaeology of Contemporary Commemoration
• Finding Faith in the Landscape
• TAG 2.0/: Archaeological theory in the light of contemporary computing
• Archaeologies of destruction
• Becoming Human - the archaeology of the social brain
• Perceptions of the Environment in Early Prehistory
• Worlds apart? Island archaeology from Mull to Morbihan
• Beyond the Between: Reflecting Multidisciplinarity
• Body as Object:Object as Body
• What have archaeologists ever done for us? A detailed exploration of archaeology in the community of Southampton

13:00-14:00 Packed lunch provided at Avenue Campus.

14:00-18:00 Afternoon Sessions

• The Archaeology of Contemporary Commemoration
• Finding Faith in the Landscape
• Border Crossings: The Archaeology of Borders and Borderlands
• Theory and Computer Visualization: the potential of virtual heritage environments
• Presenting the Past: historicism and authenticity in multidisciplinary interpretations
• Ethnic identity and political construction in the ancient world
• Encounter
• Spoilt For Choice
• Women and Archaeology: Women of the past, present and future
• ‘Brightness, lustre and shine’: colour in the medieval household
• ‘Elegance in scholarship…’: modes of expression in archaeological dialogue
• Grooved Ware: What has another decade bought us?
• Personal Histories of TAG: Thirty Years on

18:00-19:00 Bar open at Avenue Campus. If you would like to organise an informal (or formal!) meeting in this slot please contact us and we will use the website and conference pack to spread the word.

18:00-18:15 Opening of the TAG art exhibition

18:15-18:30 Launch of British Women Archaeologists. This will take place at the Avenue Cafe where a bottle bar will cater for your drinking needs. Speakers organising this opening will be in the Women and Archaeology session before.

19:00-01:00 Hartley Bar open at the Staff Club, Highfield Campus (Building 38. Buffet.

19:30-20:30 Antiquity Quiz at the Staff Club, Highfield Campus (Building 38).
20:30-01:00 TAG party at the Staff Club, Highfield Campus.

Wednesday 17th December

8:30- Registration continues at Avenue Campus.
9:00-13:00 Morning Sessions.

• Bodies of evidence: human remains in funerary practices
• Working with Barbarians
• Archaeological Ontologies
• Personality in the history of archaeology
• Engaging with wilderness: the perception and social role of the "wild" in farming societies
• Materiality and mood
• Maritime identities: museum, communal and personal uses of heritage
• Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages
• Replication and Interpretation: The Use of Experimental Archaeology in the study of the past
• Archaeological Ontologies (workshop)
• Theory on trial
• Beyond Meta-level explanations of ritual
• Theoretical issues in Indian Archaeology

13:00-14:00 Packed lunch provided at Avenue Campus.

13:00-14:00 TAG Committee Meeting - Archaeology Building (B65A: John Wymer Lab)

14:00-18:00 Afternoon Sessions.

• Bodies of evidence: human remains in funerary practices
• Working with Barbarians
• Archaeological Ontologies
• Archaeologies of Military Occupation
• Desires from the past: what do archaeological images want?
• Archaeology, Minorities and Majorities
• Prehistoric Identities: Individuals and their Worlds
• Archaeological Ontologies (workshop)
• Putting Humpty Together Again: Overcoming the Fragmentation of the Middle Ages
• Beyond Meta-level explanations of ritual
• Feminist theory for archaeologists: reading Elizabeth Grosz

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